Wonders and Scandals

The AOL front page, among the jungle of celebrities and scandals, had a top ten list "best planets outside the solar system for colonization".

Normally these top ten lists hold no interest for me; who cares about the top ten cities for vacations or the top ten most beautiful celebrities?  Really, anybody?  But who could resist this one? The top ten planets for possible colonization, ranked in order of suitability for human habitation?

That's too far out to ignore. And sure enough, there they were, all ten of them, with info about distance from earth, revolutionary period around their star, and surface temperature range. That's about it. It didn't list size of planet, or chemical make up of atmosphere., unfortunately.

Presumably all ten planets are roughly the size of earth; planets too large, due to their gravity, wouldn't any more be suited to human colonization than a woman too large is considered a candidate for beauty  pageantry. Of course, gravity is objective, beauty, subjective.

And I assume the actual physical appearance of these far away planets is still unknown to us - for now. But how amazing, that with our new telescopes we are now not only spotting new planets all over the galaxy, but planets which are somewhat like the earth! 

And its only just beginning. Over the next few years bigger and better telescopes will find more and more planets, we will find out more about these planets; and heaven only knows what wondrous discoveries lay beyond.

Hell, we might eventually even be able to observe advanced aliens walking around on their own world, while they (the aliens) and our government deny their presence on earth!

This is already the most exciting thing the human race has ever done, no argument, and it will only get more exciting. WE'll just have to hope that the American media, and the internet, can see their way to telling us about it as it continues to happen, mixed in with the celebrities, the glamour, and the sensational scandals.

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